World AIDS Day is December 1 and to celebrate all that we’ve achieved in the two decades of tireless efforts for the LGBTQ community and its friends, Victory Gardens “Fresh Squeezed” is hosting of Michael Kearns’s celebrated solo show, “intimacies’” now on its 20th anniversary revival tour.

When Hollywood’s first openly gay actor, Michael Kearns, first performed “intimacies” in Chicago in 1989 it received a very conflicted and controversial reception. A Chicago Reader review of “intimacies” from 1989 said: “All six of Michael Kearns’s AIDS-infected characters are the stereotypical dregs of society, full of hatred and self-loathing.”

Kearns now says of his characters in the current version of “intimacies” that they “will be different today than it was 20 years ago, because I have 20 years of new experience to bring to all six of them; 20 years of agony and ecstasy; 20 years of maturation as well as insidious addiction; 20 years of deaths and a few births.”

Michael Kearn’s “intimacies” is one night only this Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 7:30pm at Victory Gardens Biograph Theater mainstage, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago.

Michael’s show is the second in a series of performances in Victory Garden’s a Queer Theater Spotlight followed later this season by fellow queer icons Charles Busch and Julie Halston (December 7), and Tim Miller and Holly Hughes (March 15-21, 2010).

sponsored byVictory Gardens Biograph Theater

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